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From: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:15:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> So if you want to invest some time into getting this into mergeable
> shape I'd suggest you redo the patch series in the following way:
>  patch 1: dynamic allocated irq stacks
>  patch 2: make irqstacks unconditional, but allow selecting 4/8k stacks
>  patch 3: introduce a DEBUG_STACK option that enables vmalloc'ed stacks
>  	  and adds the __pa check.

This was actually done for work purposes, hence the change of email
addresses.

I can redo it in such a manner, provided it's not duplicating mergework
Andi Kleen intends to do or otherwise includes pieces (like the __pa()
check) he'd prefer to drop.


-- wli